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Author William Damon
All too many people view business as a ruthless, dog-eat-dog world where only the pitiless survive. But here Bill Damon tells the compelling stories of real-life business leaders who have achieved great success by adhering to moral conviction. Based on intervie....
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Project Management for IT-Related Projects
Author David I. Shepherd , Norman Smith , Brian West , Roger Ireland , Bob Hughes
The ISEB Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management is designed for those managing the development and implementation of information systems and other IT projects. This is the only textbook tailored specifically to match the ISEB syllabus – so the user can be c....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Managing Difficult Participants—Training Basics
Author Tora Estep
Ever walked away from a training session frustrated, tired, and angry because large portions of the session were spent trying to deal with a participant who didnt want to participate and was keen to let you know how much he or she didnt want to participate? Have you....
Release Date 2004/08 -
The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass
Author Lonnie Pacelli
This is your complete, hands-on guide to saving projects in trouble.Drawing on 20 years of frontline project management experience, Lonnie Pacelli identifies the 18 most pervasive causes of project failure: their causes, early warning signs, and how to fix them b....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems
Author John McCumber
This book begins with an overview of information systems security, offering the basic underpinnings of information security and concluding with an analysis of risk management. Part II describes the McCumber Cube, providing the original paper from 1991 and detailing....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author Carolyn Handler Miller
The first professional book to explore and analyze digital storytelling across interactive media and genres-this book examines how digital storytelling draws on classic narrative techniques and utilizes interactive digital technologies to create today's entertainme....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author William Walters , Wendy Larner
Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies. However, most studies of governmentality confine themselves to the exploration of power within nation-states. Global Governmental....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Derivatives Demystified: A Step-by-Step Guide to Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options
Author Andrew M. Chisholm
The book is a step-by-step guide to derivative products. By distilling the complex mathematics and theory that underlie the subject, Chisholm explains derivative products in straightforward terms, focusing on applications and intuitive explanations wherever possible....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Content Production Technologies
Author Harou Hiki , Fumio Hasegawa
We are currently in a digital content era. With the increase in circulation of multimedia content globally via the internet it has lead to the need for reuse of content stored in archives; the utilisation of newly stored materials; partially finished broadcasting p....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Practical E-Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
Author Ranjan Ghoshal , Gerhard Greeff
New technologies are revolutionising the way manufacturing and supply chain management are implemented. These changes are delivering manufacturing firms the competitive advantage of a highly flexible and responsive supply chain and manufacturing system to ensu....
Release Date 2004/08 -
The Upgrader’s Guide to Microsoft Office System 2003
Author Susan Sales Harkins , Mike Gunderloy
Microsoft Office 2003 is the sixth version of Microsoft's best-selling Office suite. As such, most of the audience is comprised of people who have used previous versions of Office and are quite familiar with most of the features. Upgraders do not need a 800-page bo....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky began his legendary web log, http://www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000, in order to offer insights for improving the world of programming. Spolsky based these observations on years of personal experience.The result just a handful of years later? Spol....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leadership in Action: Collision Courses: When Social Identity Leads to Conflict
Author Maxine A. Dalton , Donna Chrobot-Mason , Patricia J. Ohlott
As people with far different social identities increasingly find themselves working together, clashes, differences of opinion, and even serious conflicts are bound to occur. These can have acute consequences for organizations.
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author Michael H. Hoppe , George Houston
When leaders are aware of and reconcile their multiple social identities and help those they lead do the same, organizations have a better chance of reaching maximum potential in their missions, visions, cultures, and strategic objectives.
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Bridging the Identity Gap
Author Michael H. Hoppe
Today's leaders are being asked to create work environments in which bridging differences across a wide range of social identities—including gender, race, religion, age, culture, and ethnicity—becomes a core competency for everyone in the organization. ....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Taking Stock of our Biases
Author Craig Chappelow
Despite all the feel-good rhetoric about how people should embrace all kinds of other people into their inner circles of valued human beings, real-life experiences often get in the way
Release Date 2004/08 -
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Author C. K. Prahalad , Harvey C. Fruehauf
The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It's where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how to serve them and ....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim
Author Ravi Palat
This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
Author J.F. Thisse , V. Henderson
The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the d....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies
Author Michael Weinstock , Achim Menges , Michael Hensel
Emergence is an important new concept in artificial intelligence, information theory, digital technology, economics, climate studies, material science and biometric engineering.It is a development which is set to inform not only the construction of buildings, but al....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Excel 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Author Robert Rosenberg , Rob Bovey , John Green , Stephen Bullen , Paul T. Kimmel
What is this book about?Excel 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference is an updated and expanded version of the two previous editions now with a reference section downloadable from the Web for easy perusal. The book is aimed at Excel users who want to gain more control ove....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Managing Health Programs and Projects
Author Beaufort B. Longest Jr.
This essential resource shows how to effectively organize, implement, and evaluate health programs and projects. Managing Health Programs and Projects clearly defines and describes the work of managers in health programs and projects. The book explores the decision-....
Release Date 2004/07 -
The Triple Constraints in Project Management
Author Michael S. Dobson
From the novice to the most experienced and senior project manager, triple constraint issues are at the core of the most crucial decisions about a project. The Triple Constraints in Project Management explores the triangle of time, cost, and performance that b....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Leadership in Action: Wired to Inspire - Leading Organizations Through Adversity
Author Susan S. Rice , Meena S. Wilson
Times of adversity often give rise to unpredictability, fear, anxiety, and loss of confidence. Such circumstances call for inspirational leadership, which gives employees the motivation, commitment, and productivity to take advantage of the opportunities lying on th....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action: A Question of Leadership - What Can Help Leaders Do the Right Thing?
Author Barbara Popejoy , Tim Delaney
Most leaders know the right things to do and have what it takes to do them. Sometimes it's just a matter of slowing down and getting a fix on what is needed at this time in our history.
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action: Making it Click—Strategies for Helping Computer-Challenged Leaders
Author John Fleenor
Some senior executives who were schooled in less technologically oriented times break into a cold sweat at the mere sight of a computer. But organizations can take steps to help such leaders overcome the social stigma without sneaking around.
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Leading in China - A Conversation with Elizabeth Weldon
Author Editor Stephen Rush
Weldon, was selected as CCL's H. Smith Richardson Jr. Visiting Fellow for 2004. That year she was at CCL to conduct a colloquium on developing Chinese business leaders. Leadership in Action managing editor Stephen Rush spoke with her about this topic. Here are exce....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action - Dividends and Interest - Learning for a Lifetime
Author Don W. Prince
The common wisdom is that children are the best learners because they haven't become too set in their ways, and that the older people get the less adept at learning they become. Don Prince shares stories that seem to prove otherwise.
Release Date 2004/06